Sol = sun, sistere = to hold still. The day when Surya devata or the Sun God shines closest, longest, brightest in the Northern Hemisphere. It may be a great day for the sun in universal terms, but here, in our villages of Betawar-Chhitauni, the sun has not been glimpsed for days and is notContinue reading “Summer Solstice”
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Hello, babies!
The two things we have been working on for the past few days are seeds and trenches. Re: the latter, we are in the process of buying and gathering together massive amounts of straw, leaves, and cowdung, and trying to distribute them in piles all around our site. It’s a lot of manual labour, andContinue reading “Hello, babies!”
Seeds and cuttings!
We have started working on our seedlings. We will be able to afford to buy about 2000 plants from the nursery. Those will be our specialty fruit/nut/spice trees and trees that aren’t available easily in the vicinity. But all the others – over 4000 – will have to be added over the monsoon and followingContinue reading “Seeds and cuttings!”
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